visual arts
Antonia Hirsch: staring at nothing at the SFU Gallery
November 17, 2014When looking at Antonia Hirsch’s exhibition at the SFU Gallery, John Carpenter’s 1987 film, Prince of Darkness, came to mind. Satan is portrayed as infectious green ooze imprisoned in a jar and kept hidden from the world by a secret Catholic brotherhood, so that he may not call forth his progenitor. This “father of Satan” or “Anti-God” resides in the realm of antimatter and is summoned through a mirror acting as a portal. The film’s characters believe that this anti-being will bring about the end of the world through its negation of our universe. Hirsch’s exhibit brought to mind this…
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A day at the Art/Book fair
October 29, 2014During the month of September, local artist-run culture gets into the full swing of things with an annual swarm of show openings throughout the Vancouver area. One centre, however, is creating a new tradition in the first week of October.…
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SFU Artist in Residence Ricardo Basbaum presents new exhibition
October 20, 2014The Production of the Artist as a Collective Conversation, an exhibition by Rio de Janeiro-based artist Ricardo Basbaum — the current Audain Visual Artist in Residence — opened at the Audain Gallery at SFU Woodward’s on October 16. The show…
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Lucien Durey’s Thin White Line is a collection of overlooked objects
October 20, 2014For a year now, the School for the Contemporary Arts office staff have invited current MFA students to exhibit and curate projects in their makeshift gallery space. Because the office allows artists to exhibit their work on location, the context…
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MFA Students show off their final projects at the Audain Gallery
September 8, 2014Enjoy an evening of art, cheese, wine, and mingling with our MFA Graduate students during their opening reception of Lossless on September 10 in the Audain Gallery at the Woodward's campus! Lossless is an exhibition featuring final projects by the…
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Lover’s quarrel: Cindy Sherman meets Dzunuk’wa
February 24, 2014Both reading break and Valentine’s Day are considered the right time to make those previously unthought-of chance encounters. Maybe it’s the winter doldrums that push us to step into the unexpected — an opportune excuse to shake things up. Perhaps…
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Vexations: sugarcoated delights
January 27, 2014Hiding just around the corner of Main Street on East Georgia is a proverbial playground made of paper, courtesy of Montréal’s Séripop (Yannick Desranleau and Chloe Lum). Having seen their work in the past, I quickly made my way to…
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Art au naturel
October 15, 2013During the evening of Oct. 3, I visited Hot Art Wet City on Main Street to peruse the gallery’s’ most recent exhibit: Boobies & Weiners: An Immature Look at the Nude, which is on until Oct. 26. From the get…
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Coming out of the darkness
September 30, 2013September brings with it a host of novel adventures, each more interesting than the last. And so it goes with the recent onslaught of Swarm openings, the two-day festival of artist-run exhibitions, though one of these stood out from the…
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